http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2040/2041/2054/2057/1994/2011/1893 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/mauritania-government-guilty-routine-torture-20081203 Amnesty International today accused the Mauritanian government of routine and systematic torture, saying that the security apparatus has adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/mauritanias-security-forces-guilty-routine-torture-20081203 The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/127/2008/en Dr Ayman Batarfi, a 38-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, has been held in Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly seven years. He is one of dozens of Yemeni detainees remaining in Guantánamo, despite calls by the Yemeni authorities to repatriate them. This case card calls on the US authorities to release Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/124/2008/en Mohamed al-Qahtani has been in Guantánamo since February 2002. For about six months from August 2002 he was held in total isolation and subjected to sleep deprivation, loud music, bright lights, hooding, intimidation by dogs, stress positions, various forms of humiliation and 20-hour interrogation sessions. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/123/2008/en Seventeen Uighur men have been in Guantánamo without charge or trial since 2002. In October 2008 a US District Court ordered their release into the USA, but the US administration appealed and the releases have been indefinitely postponed. This case card calls on the US authorities to release the 17 Uighur m Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/125/2008/en Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA13/007/2008/en Jahangir Alam Akash, journalist and head of two local human rights organizations, was detained for more than a month in October 2007 and tortured by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). There is a pattern of silencing human rights defenders in Bangladesh by bringing contrived criminal charges against them. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA13/007/2008/fr Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA31/010/2008/en Rita Mahato is a 30-year-old health counsellor with the Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) in Nepal. In June 2007 she was threatened with rape and death when her office in Siraha district was attacked by men from her community who objected to WOREC’s work to defend the rights of women and dalits. In t Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA31/010/2008/es Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International